MMC Console for OS X

[cyberfed]

I am living a double life. I am a windows network admin at my job, but I recently went 'all mac' at home. I am looking for the equivalent of Microsoft's MMC console to mange multiple remote desktops on my Macbook Pro.

Anyone know of a tool for Mac that will let me do this? I really hate having to type in the IP or server name each time to access a system. I am constantly bouncing from server to server and need a centralized place.

I did some quick Google searches and found nothing...I am hoping someone here can save the day.

Thank you in advance!

 

[MacsWork]

Apple Remote Desktop,...not free though.

What tasks do you want to accomplish? MMC has many snap ins that all do there own thing.

 

[cyberfed]

I want to have a list of remote desktops I can click on and access.
Other snap in's would be nice but what I need really is just the screens.

I looked at remote desktop on apple's site, didn't see too much info about it (insert clever apple marketing scheme).

I will give ARD a shot and see if it does the trick.

 

[cyberfed]

Update.

I installed ARD 3.2 no luck Apple Remote Desktop does not allow control of windows based computers unless they are running VNC.

Any other thoughs?

 

[MacsWork]

Try CoRD then for controlling windows desktops.

I would suggest when you configure your server connections that you choose the same resolution, or full screen option for all connections. This eases the pain of toggling through several servers with different remote session resolutions.

I assumed since you said "all mac", that that was your intention. My bad.

 

[cyberfed]

CoRD is exactly what I needed, many thanks!

 

[Davanw]

Reviving an old post, can we take this one step further?

I highly doubt such a tool exists, but are there equivalent mac applications for the following mmc snap-ins?
- active directory users and computers
- group policy management
- dhcp
- task scheduler

And what would really make my day is a mac equivalent of:
- SQL server management studio
- IIS Manager

I know... I think I'm asking for too much. LOL

 

[MacsWork]

Keep in mind that MMC stands for Microsoft Management Console, which microsoft provides to manage it's own technology.

Apple provides Server Admin Tools to manage itself.

Even if MS made their MMC's web based I'm sure they would require .Net or ActiveX.

Looks like VMWare Fusion in unity mode is the only option for now.

I haven't tried it but perhaps installing the AdminPak via Crossover could work??? Doubt it though, too many requirements for MMC.

 

[Davanw]

Likewise Enterprise is a software suite that allows management of windows active directory and group policy from a Mac desktop. This is exactly what I'm looking for. It's really expensive though.

 

[MacsWork]

It looks more like group policy extensions for mac and linux desktops. Not administration from mac and linux desktops.